Joshua 2:20-22

Amplified Bible, Classic Edition

²⁰But if you tell this business of ours, we shall be guiltless of your oath which you made us swear.

²¹And she said, According to your words, so it is. Then she sent them away and they departed; and she bound the ^[a]scarlet cord in the window.

²²They left and went to the mountain and stayed there three days, until the pursuers returned, who had searched all along the way without finding them.

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Footnotes

Joshua 2:21 What the blood on the doorposts on the first Passover night in Egypt was to the houses of Israel (Exod. 12:13), the scarlet cord in the window was to the house of Rahab. Her sinful years of ignorance God ignored (Acts 17:30, 31); she became an ancestress, as did Ruth, of David and of Jesus Christ (Matt. 1:1, 5, 6).